[Info-vax] VMware

[Stanley F. Quayle]

> Charon I believe claim VMware certification

Yes, it does.

> Not sure if that includes an OpenVMS cluster or individual OpenVMS nodes migrating, I suspect the latter

I haven't tried migrating a whole cluster in one big "bet the farm" fashion. I frequently migrate nodes, one-by-one, until the cluster is entirely virtual.

> I think OpenVMS might need a bit of work fitting into a virtualized world especially where migrations are happening. The complexity in handling a node member of an OpenVMS cluster member might be very interesting indeed.

A CHARON node running on Linux/Windows under VMware, can be motioned with only a slight delay. You could make the cluster tolerant of the few-seconds delay without doing a cluster transition by adjusting the correct VMS parameters.